Free Bradley Manning!
Statement by Matthias Höhn, party secretary of the party DIE LINKE, about whistleblower Bradley Manning’s verdict:
Bradley Manning was acquitted of the gravest charge of ‘aiding the enemy’ – a short moment one may be glad about this.
However, Bradley Manning will still have to spend many years in jail for the twenty other verdicts. But why? Because he demonstrated amazing courage?! This is absurd.
Telling the truth, going public with it and thereby denouncing a warfare against any international law just cannot seriously be considered a crime. This is the act of a modern hero. His conduct should serve as a model, set an example – also for the governments of this world.